From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Democracy
On 1/9/2015 1:08 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
j'y
Le 9 janv. 2015 21:59, "meekerdb" <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> On 1/9/2015 5:55 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
>>
>> It is not until you accept it and you have been meant to accept it... at
>> the moment that your boss has coercive capacity against you, what will make
>> you have the capacity to go against it ? We're talking about hierarchy
>> here, not collaborative working for the benefit of both that you seem to
>> conflate.
>
>
> Is it coercive capacity if the boss can refuse to pay you if you don't do
> the work to his satisfaction? Well how is his satisfaction satisfied? The
> thing is, he only has the coercive capacity to judge it, you're not on
> equal footing here. Hierarchy implies coercion. What if he owns all the
> land and is the only person within a 100 miles that has money with which to
> pay you and a job for you to do?
As long as he is the boss, he has coercive capacity against you, that's
what it means to be the "boss" .
>>So anyone very much wealthier than you has coercive capacity against you. I
>>would agree with that, and it is one of the reasons to prefer
>>constitutionally limited government to anarcho-capitalism. Libertarians like
>>to think money is just a medium of trade, but it is also power.
I agree with that! Money itself may just be a medium of trade, but the
possession of great amounts of money is a means of amassing great amounts of
power. The Koch brothers (or Soros) have much more influence on the daily
exercise of power that your average citizen, because they have the option of
directing a small part of their immense wealth into influencing social outcomes
as they desire.-Chris
Brent
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